Topic: 1900s

Direction Charles Chaplin

Cast Charles Chaplin · Mack Swain · Georgia Hale · Tom Murray

Plot The Lone Prospector, a valiant weakling, seeks fame and fortune in the Alaskan wilderness. There, he meets Black Larson (Tom Murray) and large but gentler Big Jim McKay (Mack Swain),...

Direction Ingmar Bergman

Cast Bertil Guve · Pernilla Allwin · Gunn Wållgren · Ewa Fröling

Plot TV Miniseries. 4 Episodes. The story is set in 1907 Uppsala, Sweden, and deals with a young boy named Alexander, his sister Fanny, and their well-to-do family, the Ekdahls. The...

Direction Akira Kurosawa

Cast Maksim Munzuk · Yuriy Solomin · Svetlana Danilchenko · Vladimir Kremena

Plot It is the story of an elderly guide and Goldi hunter (Maxim Munzuk), who, at the turn of the century, agrees to shepherd a Russian explorer (Yuri Solomin) and a...

Direction Bernardo Bertolucci

Cast Gérard Depardieu · Robert De Niro · Dominique Sanda · Stefania Sandrelli

Plot In 1901, in the north of Italy, the same day Giuseppe Verdi died, the sons of a landlord and a farm worker are born. They will be inseparable friends, although...

Direction Max Ophüls

Cast Joan Fontaine · Louis Jourdan · Mady Christians · Marcel Journet

Plot In Vienna, about 1900, a dashing man arrives at his flat, instructing his manservant that he will leave before morning: the man is Stefan Brand, formerly a concert pianist, planning...

Direction Ingmar Bergman

Cast Bertil Guve · Pernilla Allwin · Gunn Wållgren · Ewa Fröling

Plot The story is set in 1907 Uppsala, Sweden, and deals with a young boy named Alexander, his sister Fanny, and their well-to-do family, the Ekdahls. The siblings' parents are both...

Direction Bill Bain · Christopher Hodson · Raymond Menmuir · Derek Bennett

Cast Gordon Jackson · David Langton · Jean Marsh · Angela Baddeley

Plot TV Series (1971-1975). 5 Seasons. 68 Episodes. The series follows the lives of both the family and the servants in the London townhouse at 165 Eaton Place. Richard Bellamy, the...

Direction Thierry Fremaux

Cast Thierry Fremaux · Auguste Lumière · Louis Lumière · Martin Scorsese

Plot A collection of restored prints from the Lumière Brothers.

Direction Bille August

Cast Pernilla August · Samuel Froler · Max von Sydow · Ghita Nørby

Plot It is based on the story of Bergman's parents, Erik and Karin (whose fictional names are Henrik and Anna). Henrik, a humble theology student, meets Anna, a girl from a...

Direction Jack Amiel · Michael Begler · Steven Soderbergh

Cast Clive Owen · André Holland · Eve Hewson · Juliet Rylance

Plot TV Series (2014-2015). 2 Seasons. 20 Episodes. A look at the professional and personal lives of the staff at New York's Knickerbocker Hospital during the early part of the twentieth...

Direction Jacques Becker

Cast Simone Signoret · Serge Reggiani · Claude Dauphin · Raymond Bussières

Plot In an open-air dance hall, the members of Leca's gang are relaxing with their ladies. One of them, Marie, aka "Casque d'Or" (Golden Helmet) meets Manda, a carpenter. Her man...

Direction Orson Welles

Cast Tim Holt · Joseph Cotten · Dolores Costello · Agnes Moorehead

Plot The young, handsome, but somewhat wild Eugene Morgan wants to marry Isabel Amberson, daughter of a rich upper-class family, but she instead marries dull and steady Wilbur Minafer. Their only...

Direction Max Ophüls

Cast Anton Walbrook · Simone Signoret · Serge Reggiani · Simone Simon

Plot An all-knowing interlocutor guides us through a series of affairs in Vienna, 1900. A soldier meets an eager young lady of the evening. Later he has an affair with a...

Direction Werner Herzog

Cast Klaus Kinski · Claudia Cardinale · Paul Hittscher · Miguel Ángel Fuentes

Plot The story of Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald, an extremely determined man who intends to build an opera house in the middle of a jungle.

Direction Lee Eung-bok

Cast Lee Byung-hun · Kim Tae-ri · Kim Min-jung · Yoo Yeon-seok

Plot TV Series (2018). 24 Episodes. In 1905, a Korean American U.S. marine officer returns to his homeland on a diplomatic assignment. Coping with his painful past in Korea as an...

Direction Norman Jewison

Cast Topol · Norma Crane · Leonard Frey · Molly Picon

Plot This rousing musical, based on the stories of Shalom Aleichem, takes place in pre-revolutionary Russia and centers on the life of Tevye (Topol), a milkman who is trying to keep...

Direction Agasi Babayan

Cast Adolf Shestakov · Kasym Zhakibayev · Aleksandr Baranov · Spiridon Grigoryev

Direction Bille August

Cast Max von Sydow · Pelle Hvenegaard · Astrid Villaume · Lars Simonsen

Plot At the end of the 19th century, a boat filled with emigrants from Sweden arrives at the Danish island of Bornholm. Among them are Lasse Karlsson and his son Pelle...

Direction Michael Powell · Emeric Pressburger

Cast Roger Livesey · Anton Walbrook · Deborah Kerr · John Laurie

Plot Portrays in warm-hearted detail the life and loves of one extraordinary man. We meet the imposingly rotund General Clive Wynne-Candy, a blustering old duffer who seems the epitome of stuffy,...

Direction Henry King

Cast Jean Peters · David Wayne · Hugh Marlowe · Albert Dekker